Capcom set the bar too high with the previous releases for the franchise, those being Resident Evil VII and Resident Evil 2 Remake, who brought back those beloved real horror elements and puzzles, forcing you to use your brains to proceed through the game, not only shoot your way through.

Oh man, those 2 releases were amazing, I could really feel the classic elements and the modernity converging into one coherent experience, so my hopes were really high for the Resident Evil 3 Remake, my favorite in the series.


I was let down

Now don't take me wrong here, I'm not saying that this game is totally bad, it is good, really good. It uses our beloved RE Engine, it holds stunning visuals, sounds, enemy designs and animations, the soundtrack is awesome and it even features some neat throwbacks to the classic versions of RE 2 and RE 3, it also prooves that this new engine is amazing for a more action oriented Resident Evil Game, but lemme stop praising the game here, since I am a big time fan of the franchise and let me go to the complaining part.

Length. Yeah, yeah, I know the classic one is a rather short game and you can finish it in the same time my steam counter says, albeit it might take a little bit more time due to the increased difficulty presented by the mechanics and the puzzles, but it still would be a short experience as well.

Pay attention, I said WOULD BE.

By getting to the end of the RE3 R, you unlock a neat little shop where you can buy upgrades with coins awarded to you by your performance on the game and use it in your next playthrough, that's cool, right? Yeah, except you have no real incentive to go on as you'll simply have to replay the same sections all over again, with no change at all, just shooting your way through things.

But by beating the classic RE3, you feel rather uneasy, since the choices you made during the Live Selection moments led you to ending A, and now you're rather curious about ending B, so you gotta figure out the differences, man! You even unlock new weapons, get infinite ammo and such, it's really cool!
Finished both endings? Well, you still have the Mercenaries mode if you're up to the challenge, you won't be let down by the content presented in the game, pal.

I mean, I'm not the most shiny apple in the field, the sharpest tool in the shed nor the most smart being in the universe, but I'm not THAT dumb, so WHY IN THE HELL ARE THE PUZZLES GONE IN HERE? During the total lenght of the game, only one "challenging" puzzle was presented in the game, and I say it with "QUOTATIONS" because I had to place little to no effort to besting it and continuing the game.
And what have they done to replace those puzzles? They've put Resident Evil 6 all over it, just shooty shooty bang bang.

Yeah, you guys probably seen a lot of people complaining about the complete cut of some memorable parts in the original game, like the Gas Station, the Raccoon Park, the Graveyard AND THE CLOCKTOWER... Oh god.
Yeah, Raccoon City Mayor CAPCOM decided to overhaul the city to make the zombie apocalypse not that chaotic, I guess.

There are a lot of other points to complain in here, like Nemesis being more of a pushover than a real threat, the excessive scripted segments with BOOM KABOOOOOOOOM scenes like a Michael Bay movie and the linearity, but that would be too big of a rant and I'm not here to be a ranty oldman, at least not for so much time, so my veredict is

Buy it at your own risk, but you have many better games to play besides this thing here, pal.